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Structured Thinking System: Motives

2007/08/31 — grant czerepak

At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.Lao Tzu

Out of my work on the Structured Thinking Language I have come to the realization that it is best suited to describe systems based upon its own core principles. Sort of a “it’s turtles all the way down” recursion.

I will systematically go through them and discuss their characteristics starting with Green Coat: Motives.

The MOTIVE column: Verity, Unity, Quality, Quantity, Safety, Entity.

The MOTIVE column is based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Originally, I thought that the hierarchy required an additional level at the bottom to deal with interoceptive and exteroceptive perception, but as I worked with several other hexads I came to conclude that instead, as Maslow came to conclude, it required another level at the top. Maslow called this top level trascendence, but in the context of the other hexads I decided to call it Verity. Verity is defined as “1. the state or quality of being true; accordance with fact or reality and 2. something that is true, as a principle, belief, idea, or statement.” Personally, I consider it as “the desire to right what is wrong.” The next motive is Unity which is defined as “containing all the elements properly belonging”. Maslow uses the fancy term “self-actualization”, but I think a self-actualized person can simply be called an unified person. The third motive is Quality which is defined as “uniqueness and value”. The fourth motive is Quantity “low cost participation”. The fifth motive is Safety which can be defined “freedom from the occurrence or risk of injury, danger, or loss”. The sixth motive is Entity which I define as “existing or being”. One Verity has many Unities; one Unity has many Qualities; one Quality has many Quantities, one Quantity has many Safeties; one Safety has many Relieves and, here’s the clincher, One Relief has many Verities.